Book Reviews
The Commitment Engine: Making Work Worth It John Jantsch Portfolio/Penguin Group (2012) The power of a voluntary and passionate commitment to a shared purpose Whatever their source of power (e.g. wind, weather, coal, nuclear fission), the most effective engines throughout…
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The Lean Practitioner’s Handbook Mark Eaton KoganPage (2013) A lean explanation of how to introduce or improve effectiveness of Lean initiatives in almost any organization In a remarkably informative Introduction, Mark Eaton explains why he wrote this book, briefly reviews…
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HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Strategic Marketing HBR Editors and various contributors Harvard Busxiness Review Press (2013) How the right strategy can help create or increase demand for whatever is offered This is one in a series of volumes that…
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Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein – Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe Mario Livio Simon & Schuster (2013) How and why the blunders described in this book “have all, some way…
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Weaving the Web: the Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web Tim Berners-Lee HarperSanFrancisco (1999) How and why, “if we have the individual will, we can collectively make of our world what we want.” I read this…
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Untapped Talent: Unleashing the Power of the Hidden Workforce Dani Monroe Palgrace MacMillan/Division of St. Martin’s Press (2013) How to “grow” talent, whatever the size and nature of the “garden” may be The title of this book is sufficiently vague…
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The Inclusion Dividend: Why Investing in Diversity & Inclusion Pays Off Mark Kaplan and Mason Donovan Bibliomotion (2013) A brilliant explanation of the ROI of a workplace community within which diversity and inclusion are core values If you were to…
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Predictive Analytics: the Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die Eric Siegel John Wiley & Sons (2013) The skills and tools needed to improve the accuracy of predictions of what will – and will not — happen…
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The Reality-Based Rules of the Workplace: Know What Boosts Your Value, Kills Your Chances, and Will Make You Happier Cy Wakeman Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2013) How to increase one’s value as well as eliminate whatever can diminish it and, meanwhile,…
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Fear Your Strengths: What You Are Best at Could Be Your Biggest Problem Robert Kaplan and Robert Kaiser Berrett-Koehler Publishers (2013) Actually, what we should fear are complacency and self-satisfaction as well as the assumption that “just good enough” really…
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